Patrol recommends drug charges in crash

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Aug 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM MST

Story Updated: Aug 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM MST

BUTTE - A Montana Highway Patrol officer has recommended drug charges be filed against a 32-year-old Butte man whose left arm was severed in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 east of Missoula.

Jason Dominguez is still recovering at a Missoula hospital after his SUV overturned on I-90 and plunged 16 feet down an embankment onto Beavertail Road on Aug. 9. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Garrett Van Hoose says investigators found almost 3 pounds of marijuana in the car.

Van Hoose has recommended Missoula County prosecutors charge Dominguez with criminal possession with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. Dominguez has not been arrested. A call left with prosecutors was not immediately returned.

A message left for Dominguez at the hospital was not immediately returned.

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